My computer is saying that no hard drive is installed.

[Eight Bit]

I have a Dell Dimension 4600c that my cousin gave me because he bought a new computer. I took the monitor to use as a second one, and yesterday, I plugged the 4600c up so I can reformat it to give to my brother. This is about a ~7 year old computer, but it ran great a few weeks ago. So I boot up, and I pop the XP disc in, and after the set up starts, it tells me I don't have a hard drive installed. I boot into BIOS and check the hard drive configuration, and it shows up as "Unknown device". I go check the boot sequence and see "Hard Drive (not installed)". So my best guess is that the hard drive has finally died. Now here's my question; which type of hard drive do I buy to replace? I got some info off the Dell website:

Your computer supports:

* One hard drive (IDE, serial ATA)

* One optional PC Card module

* One CD or DVD drive

Will this work with this computer? [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148236[/url]

Here are some pictures of the computer. And thanks for any help and feel free to recommend a higher capacity hdd that will work.

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[GuruCombine]

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[Eight Bit]

Better now? :downs:

[GuruCombine]

Yeah all fixed.
That HDD should be ok.

[Eight Bit]

Alright, thanks.

[editline]01:44PM[/editline]

Went with the 160Gb.

[Winsanity]

While your at it why don't you clean your CPU heatsink?

[Eight Bit]

Will do, there's dust and such everywhere.

[Shogoll]

Are you sure it's not your IDE jumpers fucking up? Sometimes they do that and the computer stops recognizing them.

[Eight Bit]

Hmmm, diagram of how I can check this?

[GiGaBiTe]

[QUOTE=Shogoll;17526195]Are you sure it's not your IDE jumpers fucking up? Sometimes they do that and the computer stops recognizing them.[/QUOTE]

How can a jumper "fuck up"? Unless you move the jumper around, that's not possible.

If the machine supports SATA, I suggest getting a SATA drive. Dell usually uses regular ATA drives unless otherwise specified when the computer is ordered.

[Hillo]

[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;17532126]How can a jumper "fuck up"? Unless you move the jumper around, that's not possible.

If the machine supports SATA, I suggest getting a SATA drive. Dell usually uses regular ATA drives unless otherwise specified when the computer is ordered.[/QUOTE]

sata in a 7 year old dell?

[NeoShinsei]

Is it just me that thinks your computer looks like it's been dropped off a 5 level building, several times over?

Try updating your BIOS?